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Tag Archives: Arthur Treadwell Walden
Alaska & The Klondike
Complete chapters from books such as Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, The Land of Tomorrow, and Along Alaska’s Great River offer first-hand accounts of the authors’ adventures in charting an unknown country, exploring a wondrous land, searching for gold, delivering freight and mail, and administering medical and religious services by dog team, at a time when the land was young. Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Book Reviews, Books, Gold Rush History, Kindle eBooks, Sled Dog History
Tagged Arthur Treadwell Walden, Denali, Ernest Ingersoll, Frederick Schwatka, Hudson Stuck, Josiah Spurr, Klondike, May Kellogg Sullivan, Robert Service, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dogsled, The Spell of the Yukon, Yukon River
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A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon
People sometimes ask me which musher in history is my favorite, and it’s a tough choice, as there have been some truly amazing mushers (and I write about many of them in my book Alaskan Sled Dog Tales), but one … Continue reading
Arthur Treadwell Walden
“Let me tell you about this man Walden.” These words, found in the introduction to Arthur Treadwell Walden’s classic book, A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon (Houghton Mifflin Co., 1928), are the reader’s invitation to meet one of the most respected … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History, Books
Tagged A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Antarctica, Arthur Treadwell Walden, Chinook, Circle City, Dawson City, Helen Hegener, Kate Sleeper, Katherine Walden, mushing, mushing history, New England Sled Dog Club, Nome, Northern Light Media, Richard E. Byrd, Yukon River
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The Huskies and the Reindeer
From 2009 through 2013 the twice-weekly Team & Trail column, written by Northern Light Media’s Helen Hegener, ran in the online newsmagazine Alaska Dispatch, and featured news of interest to the mushing community, including sled dog race reports, news, photos, articles, … Continue reading
Posted in Alaska History
Tagged A Dog-Puncher on the Yukon, Along Alaskan Trails, Archdeacon of the Yukon, Archdeacon Stuck, Arthur Treadwell Walden, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, Helen Hegener, Hudson Stuck, huskies, Northern Light Media, reindeer, Scotty Allen, Sheldon Jackson, Ten Thousand Miles with a Dogsled, The Cruelest Miles
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